"Christianity is now on offense... We're taking the battle to a new level, and the result will be either that Christians regain the authority to speak to all areas of life or that Christians lose the ability to speak at all. The stakes are high.”

From that, I draw the ire of The Bilerico Project?

If you read my entire blog you’ll see that nowhere do I suggest that Christians attack progressives. You certainly do not see that in the quote Mr. Browning sited.

My sole contention is that Christianity is under a new kind of attack by the likes of Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris. These individuals and their followers are not content to co-exist with Christianity. They aim to destroy it.

These individuals assert that religion in general and Christianity in specific are a detriment to civilization itself. They suggest religion is a form of child abuse.

I’m not making this stuff up.

Richard Dawkins wrote that “Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the small pox virus but harder to eradicate.”

Sam Harris believes religion is akin to slavery. He writes: “I would be the first to admit that they prospects for eradicating religion in our time do not seem good. Still the same could have been said about the efforts to abolish slavery at the end of the eighteenth century.”

These are quite inflammatory (and warlike) statements. This is not a philosophy or worldview of “live and let live” as suggested by an individual identified as “Sportin’ Life” in a comment on The Bilerico Project’s website.

In light of this new, vehement, highly aggressive (and warlike) atheism, we’ve opted to put Christianity on offense. This does not mean we are attacking progressives or that Christianity is warlike, as Browning suggests. What it does mean is that we are seeking to answer the arguments of the New Atheism and that we are willing to do it on their terms and on their turf.

Warlike? Hardly. We’re simply, as one of the original disciples of Jesus wrote, attempting to give an answer to everyone who asks us to give a reason for why we believe.

As I said in my earlier post, the result of this current spiritual and intellectual battle will either be that Christians regain the ability to speak to all areas of life or Christians will lose the ability to speak at all.

I’m happy that Mr. Browning read my blog but I’m disappointed his post tends to promote a spirit of hate rather than a spirit of genuine discussion. From his post I got the feeling he thinks I closely resemble Darth Vader.

If Mr. Browning is seriously interested in discussion of these issues and not mere posturing, I’d encourage him to pick up a copy of Dinesh D’Sozua’s latest book What’s So Great About Christianity.

D’Souza writes in the preface:

“I think that if atheists are genuine rationalists they should welcome this book. It is an effort to meet the atheist argument on its own terms. Nowhere in this book do I take Christianity for granted. My modus operandi is one of skepticism.”

There’s a difference between being warlike and being on offense. To learn more about strategies to put Christianity on offense, go to www.worldchangers.us.com. When you’re there, email us your thoughts. We’d love to hear from you.

It is unfortunate that someone picked up on the idea of being "on the offensive" as being warlike or attacking. The word has many other contexts, folks from Indiana should recognize it the way it is used in basketball, if we said the Hoosiers were on the offensive, would anyone assume they are being warlike? Hopefully not. The obvious intention is that Christians should be advancing and attempting to move our message forward, in the same way a team tries to move the ball up the court or the field.

What is also troubling is the way that the main point is not being discussed, but rather the author is being attacked and almost blackmailed into silence by the threat of being labeled as a hate-monger/bigot, etc.

Mr. Browning seems to have his own agenda. He has to be "right" in order to be ok. What ever he has to defend, is clearly and agenda, that God does not support. Mr. Browning, Christians have the right to be heard, a God given right. The same right that the founding fathers or our great nation provided us to have. We as people do not have to flaunt our "sexual agenda" on a daily basis in order to try to justify who we are, and just because you need to doesn’t make Christians a fundamentalist hate group. My father once told me "If you ever want to know what a person is up to just listen to him." Mr. Browning before you jump to your unfounded conclusions, I would be wise for you to understand what Christians are really about, before you put your foot in your mouth. God loves you! Christians Love you! Somewhere in your soul, even you know you need to be loved. That is a tough thing to argue about. So please spend more time on feeling Gods love, not arguing about something that gets you more frustrated.
Gary Morais
CEO
Former Psychotherapist
Loved by God

I for one applaud Mr Vandeventer for having the courage to challenge us as Christians. He has put into words what we all know to be true, but are all to happy to forget; that either "Christians regain the authority to speak to all areas of life or that Christians lose the ability to speak at all. The stakes are high."

Having personally be the recurring victim of their snipes, I am sympathetic to the dilemma of IFI and VeritasRex.com.

For the record: Not all gay apologists are so hateful. There are those, like Chris, who engage in meaningful and thoughtful debate.

• “'Jamming' refers to the public smearing of Christians, traditionalists or anyone else who opposes the 'gay' agenda.”

• “In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be portrayed as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined by reflex to adopt the role of protector ...”

• “[O]ur effect is achieved without reference to facts, logic, or proof.”

Quotes are from After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90’s (1989, Doubleday/Bantam), Harvard educated marketing experts Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen meticulously laid out the homosexual lobby’s blueprint for success in what is widely regarded as the handbook for the “gay” agenda.